Looking back on my three+ months in London, I did not see everything I had hoped to see, but I certainly did an amazing amount and I feel very fortunate. It was truly an incredible experience. I read ten books, saw fourteen plays, visited over fifty museums (some more than once) and at least as many restaurants (embarrassing as that is!), went on nine “official” walks and countless unofficial ones, and the list follows. I found it difficult to categorize the various museums and other attractions. I’m not completely satisfied with it but decided to give up. Besides, I have to pack up my laptop now because we leave for the airport at 6AM tomorrow morning.

PLAYS

• Elling
• The Emperor Jones
• The Enchantment
• The Merchant of Venice
• The Country Wife
• Macbeth
• A Disappearing Number
• Rhinoceros
• All About My Mother
• Chicago
• Cloud Nine
• Boeing Boeing
• Billy Elliott
• Bye Bye Reflection

BOOKS

• Shroud for a Nightingale, P.D. James
• Looking for Maya, Atima Srivastava
• Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence
• Gabriel’s Gift, Hanif Kureishi
• Oranges are not the only Fruit, Jeannette Winterson
• Middlemarch, George Eliot
• Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
• The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
• The Radiant Way, Margaret Drabble
• Vanity Fair, William Thackeray

ART-SPECIFIC SITES

• National Gallery (x2)
• Camden Arts Center
• Wallace Collection
• Tate Modern (x4 at least)
• Royal Academy
• Queen’s Gallery
• Tate Britain (x3)
• Victoria Miro Gallery
• National Portrait Gallery (x3)
• Dulwich Picture Gallery
• Courtauld Gallery
• Dali Universe
• Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
• Tate Liverpool
• Musee des Beaux Arts de Lyon

HISTORIC HOUSE MUSEUMS/PALACES

• Sir John Soane’s Museum (x2)
• Leighton House Museum
• Buckingham Palace state rooms (x2)
• Kenwood House
• Windsor Castle
• Kensington Palace
• Handel House Museum
• Dickens House
• Benjamin Franklin House
• Down House, home of Charles Darwin
• Queen’s House, Greenwich
• Apsley House

OTHER MUSEUMS AND HISTORICAL SITES

• British Museum (x6)
• Jewish Museum
• Palace of Westminster/Houses of Parliament
• Royal Mews at Buckingham Palace
• Victoria & Albert (x2)
• Banqueting House
• Clink Prison Museum
• Imperial War Museum
• Natural History Museum
• Exeter College, Oxford
• Christ Church College, Oxford
• Canada House
• Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms
• Wellcome Collection
• Gilbert Collection
• Sorrell Foundation Young Design Centre
• Tower Bridge Exhibition
• Design Museum
• City Hall
• Wigmore Hall (x2)
• Tower of London
• London Eye (x2)
• Shakespeare’s Globe
• Foundling Museum
• Geffrye Museum
• Wellington Arch
• London Transport Museum
• Musee Gallo Romain, Lyon

MISCELLANEOUS:

• Thames River cruise (x3)
• Regent’s Canal boat cruise
• Groucho Club
• Jane Austen Centre
• London Silver Vaults (x2)
• Harrod’s (x2)
• Oxford Street (Primark)
• Magical Mystery Tour, Liverpool
• The Beatles Story, Liverpool
• Princess Diana Memorial Fountain
• Trafalgar Square
• Horse Guards Parade
• Covent Garden
• British Library (x2)

WALKS

• Marylebone walk (Walking London book)
• Westminster and St. James’s walk ( Walking London)
• Chelsea walking tour with Richard
• Kensington Walk (in Walking London book)
• Islington Spur walk (Walking London)
• City Walk (Rick Steves’s book)
• Abbey Road/Soho (Gord)
• Central Parks (Walking London)
• Old Kensington Walk (guided)

PARKS

• St. James’s Park
• Green Park
• Hyde Park
• Kensington Gardens
• Battersea Park
• Hampstead Heath/Parliament Hill
• Regent’s Park/Primrose Hill
• Rooftop Garden

CHURCHES/CATHEDRALS

• St. Paul’s Cathedral (x2)
• Southwark Cathedral
• St. Mary Abbots Church lunch concert (x4)
• St. Alfege Church, Greenwich
• St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church (x2)
• St. Bride’s Church
• Westminster Abbey (x2)
• Temple Church (outside only)
• Cathedrale Notre Dame, Paris
• Basilique de Notre Dame de Fourviere, Lyon

TRIPS

• Avebury and Stonehenge
• Bath
• Oxford
• Liverpool
• Greenwich
• Windsor
• Kew Gardens/Henry Moore
• France (Lyon and Paris)

MARKETS

• Portobello Market (x4)
• Petticoat Lane (x3)
• Spitalfields Market (x3
• Sunday Upmarket (x2)
• Brick Lane (x3)
• Borough Market (x2)

EVENTS

• Regent Street Festival
• Changing of the Guards (x2)
• BBC Proms
• Football game a Fulham Football Club (against the Blackburn Rovers)
• Origins (Somerset House design show and sale)
• Fireworks on the Thames
• Kensington Town Hall Christmas Fair

RESTAURANTS

• Bombay Spice
• Porter’s English Restaurant and Bar
• Cipolla di Hanna
• The Apollo
• Original Tangines*
• Belgo* (x2)
• Patisserie Valerie (several times)
• Ravi Shankar restaurant
• Chinese Experience
• Giraffe (x2)
• Ooze*
• Wagamama* (several times)
• Dino’s
• Milburne
• The Red Lion, Avebury
• Top of the Town
• Papaya Tree
• Al Tanoor
• Geales
• National Gallery
• Café Rouge
• Tate Britain Café
• Greenwich market
• Tequila
• Est Est Est, Liverpool*
• Spice Lounge, Liverpool
• La Crepe Rit, Liverpool
• Ranoush
• Churchill Arms/Churchill Thai Kitchen* (x3)
• Hobgoblin, New Cross
• Budgens
• The Anchor and The Hope*
• Maggie Jones* (x3)
• Borough Market
• Ayoush
• Tamarind
• Romano’s
• Sticky Fingers
• Meza
• Veeraswamy*
• Zaika* (x2)
• Pizza Express
• Balans (x2)
• Sugo Tre (x2)
• Elephant & Castle* (several times)
• Timo*
• The Chauncery*
• Carluccios
• Villandry
• Costa’s Fish Restaurant
• The Orangery at Kensington Palace*
• Verdi’s
• Le Sud (Paul Bocuse), Lyon*
• Le Gourmand de Saint Jean, Lyon*
• La Closerie des Lilas, Paris*
• Angelina’s, Paris*
• La Belle Ronde, Paris

*indicates a particular favorite

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